Snapchat ads lose the chatbot shield: what the German ruling means

A German court barred Snap from using chatbot chats for snapchat ads without consent. What the ruling decides and five practical rules for paid social.
Your meta ads strategy just lost a door it used to walk through for free

Meta ads strategy just changed: Meta One now paywalls Competitive and Custom Audience Insights inside Ads Manager. What moved, and five fixes to try this week.
Meta One subscription tiers: which rung is worth the climb
The Meta One subscription prices business tiers from $14.99 to $499 a month. Here is the honest rule for which tier to buy and how to treat non-follower data.
Dynamic ticket pricing lost the argument, and the band wrote the rebuttal into the contract

Ticket touting met its match: Oasis Live ’27 uses fixed prices, a ballot and face value ticket resale. What artists, managers and promoters can copy now.
Five celebrity brands died. Only one of them did

Five celebrity brands were reported shut. Only one actually closed, one is still selling, and the research says category fit is what really decides it.
Fair Lending Just Lost Its Comfort Blanket , Not Its Law

Seven agencies rescinded the special purpose credit statement on 25 August. Fair lending law did not change, but the memo behind your targeting just did.
Who Is Gen Alpha Marketing Actually Supposed to Reach?

New research shows gen alpha marketing succeeds through mums far more than platforms or creators, 73% versus 58% for dads, and most youth briefs still miss it.
Google is about to relabel your customer match list , whether you asked or not

Every customer match list you never labelled gets a Google-assigned tag on 18 August. Five honest, foxy checks before Smart Bidding quietly reads it for you.
Meta built a list you can only say no with

Meta’s exclusion-only custom audiences can suppress but never target, and cannot be converted back. Three regulated uses, and the one thing they cannot prove.
Your b2b contact data just became someone else’s evidence

Italy’s Garante fined a b2b contact data broker €2m and ordered every Italian record erased. Here is the vendor audit your growth team should run this week.